The Beer Garden

I finished the spinning of the Golden Embers merino/kid mohair top late yesterday, and Navajo-plied the first bobbin-full this morning.  I’m kind of putting off plying the other one; I’ve had this around for so long I think I’ll actually miss it when the last plying is done!

Instead, I started spinning up some of the black Borderdale I found a few days ago.  I’m thinking about three-plying two of the gray with one black singles, though I won’t be able to be sure until I actually try it and see how it looks.  I think it’ll come out effectively a heathery dark gray, hopefully enough for a nice tunic-style sweater and matching hat.

When we got back from the open house, I took advantage of the still-cooler-than-usual temps to clear junk out of the chest freezer in the ex-chicken house we use as a garage.  I didn’t defrost it — not needed — but I did get rid of a lot of stuff I’d realized wouldn’t get used, mostly green tomatoes and cantaloupe.  

One of these years, I have got to figure something to do with green tomatoes that we’ll actually use, and some way to preserve cantaloupe other than drying or freezing … I dearly love cantaloupe, but so far, my attempts at preserving what I can’t eat just make it unappetizing.  (Yes, even with just one plant, I can’t keep up!)

That looks like about all for the moment, so I’ll see y’all tomorrow.   

I’d almost forgotten, but today was KCAM’s annual Open House.  The organization and planned events were good, as always, but the timing was unfortunate — direct competition with the State Fair’s only full weekend — and the weather didn’t cooperate at all, being chilly and mostly rainy.

I saw a grand total of maybe 3 visitors, and the only familiarization flights I’m aware of were given to a father and young son, longer than usual when we have a waiting list of people wanting to try.  There wasn’t much going on at all until almost 2 PM, when the sun broke through and the rain quit, by which time  it seemed everyone had come to the conclusion no one else was going to show up, and it turned into a normal flying day.

I did give a couple of people a demonstration of needle tatting, since they started asking about it when I took out the T-shirt trim piece I was working on.  Neither Ron nor I had brought a plane, though, so when things went to open flying, we left, since we had stuff to do at home.

Speaking of open things, until the Beer Garden starts getting comments, there doesn’t seem to be much point in posting open threads.  Not that I’m terribly worried about topic drift on other threads!